Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
Charles Caleb ColtonHe that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
Charles Caleb Colton